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Kings Cross: Drugs, Deceit, and the Dirty Badge" with Duncan McNab - 28th January

  • Dulcies Kings Cross 44 Darlinghurst Road Kings Cross, NSW, 2010 Australia (map)

At 11:45am on 31 March 1989, history was made at the Kings Cross Police Station when a team of 40 detectives swept in, closed the station, searched it from top to bottom, and carted off a few detectives for questioning on allegations of massive corruption involving drug dealing and two of the nation’s most notorious pedophiles Robert ‘Dolly’ Dunn and Colin Fisk.

In the corrupt underbelly of Kings Cross, Detective Sergeant Larry Churchill, once described by colleagues as ‘into everything bar a shit sandwich and that’s only because he doesn’t like bread’, reigns supreme. Known for his involvement in everything shady, he's the ring leader of a group of bent cops. Glen McNamara, now serving life alongside Roger Rogerson for the murder of Jamie Gao, reveals the shocking reality of their so-called 'duty hours' in the early 1989 Cross, where crime thrived and wonder became wicked.

Long lunches were often business meetings with Fisk and Dunn. Churchill, in return for ignoring their vile behaviour, put their chemistry skills to work making amphetamines which were distributed by a young drug dealer he’d also coerced. The tip off on their nefarious activities  came from McNamara - he’d later pitch it as a white knight moment, but the reality was he thought he’d been caught out on surveillance, and in an audio tape, and was trying to save his hide. 

Join Brandon and Duncan in a wild ride of bent coppers, drug dealers, big bags of speed, disgraceful humans and colourful types in a story of Kings Cross and those sworn to protect it.

Tickers are $25 and includes a cocktail on arrival.